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Originally Posted by IgiTang
As for Music appreciation, it comes down to an individuals likes and interests. Most people who are music LOVERS would agree that Bob Marley, Led Zeplin, Lou Reed and so on were better musicians but their exposer is limited to north america for the most part.
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Hmm, I would argue that you have to be pretty out of it to state that any of those were somehow clearly better musicians. Actually I would say that you came up with a really bad list. (Also your claim that they mostly affected North America is pretty ridiculous, especially considering that Zeppelin was a British band.)
All of those artists are quite widely debated, and the issue is very much their originality (except for Marley, on whom the issue is actually more about is there much value to him commercializing reggae). I don't actually know anyone who listens to a lot of reggae who speaks highly of Bob Marley, but that might be just me. Lou Reeds solo efforts are in my and many others opinion strong competitors for "most overrated records ever", and generally speaking Velvet Underground isn't exactly the pinnacle of
musicality. Calling Velvet Underground the cooler version of The Doors is quite accurate. They were both highly influential bands, but not really because of their musical greatness.
Led Zeppelin is well known to blatantly rip of stuff other people had done and claiming it as their own, which makes the question of "what did THEY come up with" a complicated one. (Read for example here if you don't know what I'm talking about
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http://www.furious.com/perfect/jimmypage.html)
While their influence is unquestionable, their originality is certainly very much debatable.
Jacksons contributions to pop are quite undeniable, his style is still instantly recognizable and it's quite easy to spot the influences both in dancing and in the music in the works of many of the biggest pop artists, like Britney Spears and Backstreet Boys (you propably hate both of those, but that's not an argument).
When you make claims like "most people would agree", you better come up with musicians who have a pretty much unassailable position in the history of music. Like say, Stevie Wonder, Pink Floyd, or even Kraftwerk.